New York license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2020 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV). One of 11 New York license plates.

New York (United States) license plate, Specialty index (2020 to today), sample EST-6846

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example EST-6846 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2020 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
About this plate
No New York equivalent of Florida's monthly active-plate registration report was found, New York publishes designs, not issuance volumes.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the official catalogue and its '206 items available' counter; the eight listed categories https://dmv.ny.gov/plates/picture-plates
  2. NYSDMV's three plate tracks: Personalized Plates, Custom Picture Plates, Professional Custom Plates https://dmv.ny.gov/plates
  3. § 404: the permissive special-plate authority, the eight-character cap and the service charge https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/404

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ny-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New York's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ny \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ny-specialty-index")'